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Lib. C. B.

It is the Advice of this Board that the honble Benjamin
Young Esq^r issue his Warrant for the apprehending the said
Abell Bell as a Deserter from his Majestys Service.

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At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Friday the
12^th Day of September in the thirty second Year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoq Domini 1746.

Present
His Excellency Thomas Biaden Esq^r Governor

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Benjamin Young Esq^r
Col Benjamin Tasker

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Petition &c.

To His Excellency Thomas Biaden Esq^r Governor of
Maryland
The Petition of George Hardy
Humbly sheweth
That by Virtue of a Warrant from your Excellency to enlist
Men in his Majestys Service on the intended Expedition
against Canada, Your Petitioner and Captain John Jordan
agreed to raise in Conjunction One Company of One hundred
Men for the Service af^d that your Petitioner did raise thirty
Men for which Captain Jordan was willing to accept of him
as his Lieutenant with Your Excellencys Approbation that
the Company of Men were accordingly raised and reviewed
by your Excellency, and Your Petitioner was nominated a
Lieutenant under the said John Jordan; But so It is may it
please your Excellency — whether out of Prejudice or what
Other Motive unknown to your Petitioner, It has been repre-
sented to your Excellency that Your Petitioner was unworthy
to serve in the Station of a Lieutenant in the Service, because
he discharged Two Men which were not included in the Com-
pany raised and reviewed as af^d (the Three Companies pro-
vided for by Act of Assembly being all Compleat above four
Weeks before any Complaint made which shews the Malice)

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that Your Petitioner believes he could make appear that
several Men have been discharged by the Other Officers if
Enquirys were made in the same publick Manner which he
does not desire. In tender Consideration whereof as your
Petitioners Case is most deplorable he having converted his
All he had in the World towards the raising the Men for the